Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)

Letters: Memories drift across the water to Catalina

2013-05-12 00:00:00

Rosemary McClure's May 5 article on Avalon turning 100 was outstanding ["Still Shining"]. Another way for visitors to experience Avalon's golden days is to have breakfast or lunch at the Inn on Mt. Ada, [William] Wrigley's home, completed in 1921. By...

reFramed: In conversation with WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY curator Anne Wilkes Tucker

2013-05-01 03:05:07

Wyoming: Heart Mountain's chill winds of Japanese American internment

2013-03-31 00:00:00

CODY, Wyo. — The drive east of Cody is through high desert, and the February weekend of my visit was bitterly cold. But I was wearing a heavy down coat, snow pants and boots, and riding in a cozy, warm SUV. That's not how nearly 14,000 earlier...

Edwin Ramsey dies at 95; WWII Army cavalry officer in Philippines

2013-03-16 19:55:00

Historians have said that losing the Philippines in the early stages of World War II was a defining event in the career of Gen. Douglas MacArthur. The same could be said of Edwin Ramsey. But Ramsey couldn't admit defeat. After MacArthur's retreat in...

U.S. moves missile-tracking radar platform closer to North Korea

2013-04-01 21:00:00

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy is moving a sea-based radar platform closer to North Korea to track possible missile launches, a Pentagon official said Monday, in the latest step meant to deter the North and reassure South Korea and Japan that the U.S....

Transcript: Rand Paul's filibuster of John Brennan's CIA nomination

2013-03-07 11:21:00

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) delivered a nearly 13-hour filibuster Wednesday of John Brennan’s nomination to lead the CIA. Paul used his time on the floor to question the legality of the White House's policies on drone use, beginning at 11:47 a.m. EST and...

George Aratani dies at 95; L.A. philanthropist who funded Japanese American causes

2013-02-21 00:00:00

George Aratani, a Los Angeles businessman who donated millions of dollars to Japanese American causes, and with his wife endowed the nation’s first academic chair to study the World War II internment of people of Japanese descent and their efforts...

Philippines travel: Courage and legacy

2012-12-02 00:00:00

BALANGA, Philippines — The school day at Balanga Elementary on the Bataan Peninsula was winding down, and children poured from the classrooms into the stifling afternoon heat. Behind their classrooms, they played around the statutes of grim-...

World War II internment site considered for historical status

2013-02-17 12:22:39

Sen. Daniel Inouye dies at 88; war hero

2012-12-17 23:03:00

When Daniel K. Inouye was 17, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. An aspiring surgeon, he spent much of the next week helping care for the wounded at an elementary school in his native Honolulu. He wanted to enlist immediately but couldn't. Japanese...

Revisionism Tokyo-style

2013-01-18 00:00:00

This month 75 years ago, the people of Nanking, China's ancient capital city, were in the midst of one of the worst atrocities in history, the infamous Rape of Nanking. The truth of what actually happened is at the center of a bitter dispute between China...

8 U.S. sailors sue Japanese firm over radiation from nuclear meltdown

2012-12-28 07:34:10

Heart Mountain Relocation Center, outside of Cody, Wyo., was one of 10 internment camps that held Japanese Americans forcibly relocated from the West Coast after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Many of the 14,000 internees, held here for three years, were from California.

2013-03-27 14:27:50

The view from above as a Japanese torpedo bomber prepares to strike "battleship row" in Pearl Harbor.

2013-03-22 16:22:00

This stone is from the shore of the harbor, a few hundred yards from the site of the Japanese attack that came without warning on Dec. 7, 1941.

2013-01-04 13:50:06